━━ magdalene; book cover tips

XI. shadow outline

☾ SHADOW OUTLINE ☽

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i. Open Picsart, and click on draw. Also, you want to look for you png of your FC.

ii. chose a color of any choice ; it doesn't matter. You want to got to the plus sign and than empty layer, add three different layers.

iii. after that, you want to add your png of your FC.

iv. Once that is done, go to one of the other empty layers and add a color that you want as the shadow outline. [i chosen white] After I added the white layer, I made it as Xor, to do that click where normal is, xor is right after difference.

v. Once you put the layer with the png and the layer of any color, you want to do that the same as the next layer, but this time it's gonna be of the color you want as the background. [i chosen black] Also, instead of having it as xor, you want it as soft light. The color of the shadow outline will show.

ⅵ. you want to add another layer of the png, to do that you want to go to the three bars, and once you click that you click on copy. [you have to click on the layer of the png before you do all of that, it should be blue, that's how you know your on a layer.]

ⅶ. after that you click on the new copy of your png, and make it normal instead of xor.

ⅷ. Once your done with everything you want to go back to the three bars, click on transform. Than you can move the FC around till you feel satisfied with the shadow outline.

ⅸ. Add filters and the title, username/name. than your all done.

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Hope this helps, comment if you don't understand anything.

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VIDEO:

[video is not mine, i actually watched this video to learn how to do the shadow outline. I'm posting it for people that don't understand the pictures.]